[Lambert #1]

TaterTotB,

I do agree with you on some of your points, well actually I don't think I do. I think Mike is a great Offensive Coordinator, probably as good as they come. I don't think he did a really good job of motivating our kids and he never tried to develop personal relationships with them, overall I just don't think he was a good fit for Letcher County in general. He can lay no claim on that record the year that Hillard was here, that was an offense already built for success by Hillard's son Ben and Mike just picked up and went with it. As far as your comment on no talent in the hallways goes your wrong! There is some great young talent roaming those hallways that are not playing right now. How about these names? Ty Brock (soph) would start right now and last year, Zack Adams (Soph next year, would start right now), Cody Sexton (would start right now), Aaron Tackett (great WR and safety), Clayton "Fuzz" Johnson (definite starter on line), Big Knight (definite starter on line) Cody Conn (definite starter on offense and defense) Trevor Napier (great overall athlete and would start somewhere) that's just off the top of my head buddy and these are kids that Whitaker or his assistants ran off, if I could sit down and look at class enrollments I could find you at least 20 other kids that have played football in the past and could contribute right now and help this team if they were out playing. These few kids alone could make this team 14 points better on offense and defense, if Raines can get them out they will be a much better team. You cannot tell me that Whitaker did not underachieve with the talent that he has had while he was head coach. There is no reason that the past two teams won a total of 7 or 8 games in two years, look back as to when the past two senior classes were freshmen and sophomores and you will see that those freshmen and JV teams beat everyone with pretty much ease, you can blame it on the kids but ultimately it comes down to if the head coach can get the kids to play for him, that's why they are paid 70+ thousand a year and Whitaker failed at getting the most out of these kids. And as far as your "We" comment to Cougarpride08 goes, your also wrong there. WE do pay our hard earned tax dollars to the school system and sit in OUR stands on Friday nights and watch a coach that's "Grossly overpaid by our tax dollars" lose game after game. WE pay our money to get into those games, WE pay our money to the concession stands and all this money goes to make sure that the coach has everything necessary to make up a good team. WE pay the expensive Ad dollars for the JumboTron, WE sit by and watch our administration lay Letcher County teachers off each year so that our coaches can bring in whomever they wish to be their assistants and take our local teachers jobs. WE may not have been in those huddles and locker room that you were in for a few years but WE do have a right to lay claim to the Cougars team being OURS when push comes to shove. Have you looked at the size of the crowd in the stands, it is nowhere near what Hillard put in them, that's because Hillard was a people person that knew how to talk to people and not only motivate his players but he also knew how to motivate a community, Mike never bought into the community idea, shoot he lived on a houseboat in another county, YEAH buddy he really wanted to be here didn't he? So just because you were one of the few that Mike connected with doesn't give you the right to say that nobody has a right to claim this as OUR team unless you played for it is wrong. I do think that Mike will have great success at his next stop because he will most likely be an offensive coordinator and leave the head coaching to someone else. Mike is a great coach when he has pure athletes like he had at Christian County but Letcher County does not have that type of athlete and a good coach would adapt to what we do have and be successful but Mike never made those adaptations and tried to fit our kids into a mold that they did not ever fit into.